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Our Troops Rights in Danger! 7/29/2010
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DON’T LET OUR TROOPS
BE DISENFRANCHISED! |
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ALL-IMPORTANT MILITARY VOTE IN DANGER!
SHOULDN’T THE TROOPS BE ALLOWED TO ENJOY
THE VERY RIGHTS THEY’RE FIGHITNG TO PROTECT?
Primary date after primary date is flashing by as America races towards November elections. With all the commotion of the politicians and their campaigners gearing up for a historic election this fall, our troops are at risk of being forgotten again.
You can CLICK HERE to donate to MAF’s HEROES VOTE FUND.
The issue of military voting, and the difficulties our troops face in trying to exercise their voting rights was brought up during the last election by the late Robert Novak in his article “They Fight but Can’t Vote”
“Analysis by the federal Election Assistance Commission, rejecting inflated Defense Department voting claims, estimated overseas and absentee military voting rates for the 2006 midterm elections at a disgracefully low 5.5 percent,” wrote Novak in 2008, just before the historic presidential election where, as he predicted, thousands of our troop’s votes ended up not getting counted.
Today, as we head into the 2010 midterm elections, the same issue persists, and the latest scandal is more shameful than ever! New legislation was enacted to help our troops vote easier thanks to Republican John Cornyn and lots of bipartisan support, but according to former Department of Justice official Eric Eversole the Department of Justice is doing everything it can to ignore the new law!
That means the troops will continue to be disenfranchised!
“Unfortunately, states have been slow to revamp their voting laws to accommodate a 45-day mailing standard. Before the 2008 election, at least 10 states and the District of Columbia provided military voters with just 35 days or fewer to receive and return their ballots,” wrote Eversole
We can’t let our troops be disenfranchised, please help us fight to spread the word about this scandal and help spread Eversole’s complaints about the lack of support for our troops in allowing them to vote by donating to MAF’s HEROES VOTE fund!
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MAF is a non-partisan, non-profit, charitable organization co-founded in 2004 by Melanie Morgan a talk show host from San Francisco. MAF is committed to supporting America’s brave troops and their missions to keep America safe, secure, and free. We believe our armed forces are our greatest security asset, and furthermore deserve our utmost respect and admiration.
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